Which team had the SECOND LOWEST attendance in League 1 on Saturday?

[Simster]

Put bluntly, watching the Albion has become an expensive chore rather than a pleasure for too many people, and it seems there are many different reasons for this.

I can't helping the good vibes will return with Falmer - as long as ticket prices are competitive.

 

[Dr Bandler]

Football

I genuinely believe the crowds would increase if the football was better - even with the prices. It is so uninspiring at the moment and has been for a quite a while (since Wilkins took over?). I really feel it will not change while Wilkins is there - no matter how many players we bring in. I actually believe a better manager (i.e. stronger motivator, better tactician) would get better performances from this set of players. We have some youngsters with potential, who are not developing as well as they could.

 

[Brovion]

I genuinely believe the crowds would increase if the football was better - even with the prices. It is so uninspiring at the moment and has been for a quite a while (since Wilkins took over?). I really feel it will not change while Wilkins is there - no matter how many players we bring in. I actually believe a better manager (i.e. stronger motivator, better tactician) would get better performances from this set of players. We have some youngsters with potential, who are not developing as well as they could.

They'd undoubtedly increase if the results were better. If we were second or third we'd, by definition, have had good results. The 'feelgood' factor would be kicking in and even at the current prices gates would be about 1000 higher. And if we needed to win to guarantee promotion you wouldn't be able to get a ticket for love nor money - regardless of what the official price was. One of the hardest Withdean games I had trouble getting a ticket for was for a home match against Chesterfield! On the face of it that was hardly a glamour game but of course the Championship was at stake.

But .... we're not in that position so the club have got to do something to counter the apathy. Your gripe is that the football is 'uninspiring', that's fair enough. Given that no club has a magic wand to remedy that they could at least sugar the pill by making it cheaper.

 

[El Presidente]

Look at the crowds that Leeds get, and Bates is fleecing the fans left, right and centre, but they are producing good results, have two decent strikers and there is a feelgood factor about the place.

 

[Woodchip]

I'm not going as I'm a curse. I used all my football good luck at Cardiff. Since then we've played rubbish whenever I've been. It's in the Albion's interests that I don't go.

 

[Silent Bob]

We're dying on our arses

It's difficult to disagree with that.

 

[Caveman]

Yep, that includes the 300 argus winners. Shocking.

Proof that Knight has priced out the fans, and that hardly anyone wants to watch dire football anymore

Rubbish, go get your history book, check out Brighton's attendances.

We are in the old Div 3, mid table and playing a poor side. I am afraid this attendance is about right.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I think the high prices are being used as an excuse not a reason for non attendance.

I think the real reason is the performances on the field people are fed up with seeing lacklustre performances from the players and apparent indifference to changing the team to win a game from the mangement. The enthusiasm appears to have vanished

Yep that has been my thought. Also the embarrassing performances at both Millwall and Yeovil.

I know we did well against Oldham but bad performances linger more in the memory than good ones.

 

[Caveman]

Yep that has been my thought. Also the embarrassing performances at both Millwall and Yeovil.

I know we did well against Oldham but bad performances linger more in the memory than good ones.

Ah, maybe we are onto something here! See mine are the good memories, like the Millwall home win when we wiped the floor with them.

Half full or half empty I guess.

 

[Ernest]

How many people who didn't go Saturday wish they had have done ? NONE as all they missed was another DIRE performance and nothing at all there to make them return.

 

[Brovion]

Yep that has been my thought. Also the embarrassing performances at both Millwall and Yeovil.

I know we did well against Oldham but bad performances linger more in the memory than good ones.

I am finding this hard to believe. After a bad performance do you really say "The performace was great but I'm not going to go again because it's too expensive?"

 

[Mendoza]

only 139 Huddersfield didnt help our gate.
Agreed, it is still shocking the attendance, and the game was boring, but it is part and parcel of being a fan, so you kind of just put up with it like doing your household chores

 

[Curious Orange]

I don't know where people get the impression that we've historically had massive crowds, I've been going for 20 odd years and it isn't like we breached 10k very often at the Goldstone in that time - the average was nearer 7k or 8k if memory serves (even in '91) - so to quibble over differences in crowd size that amount to a few hundred people seems rather childish to me. I think a lot of it amounts to the away attendance, words got around that the view from the Worthing End is crap so people don't bother coming.

 

[Caveman]

I don't know where people get the impression that we've historically had massive crowds, I've been going for 20 odd years and it isn't like we breached 10k very often at the Goldstone in that time - the average was nearer 7k or 8k if memory serves (even in '91) - so to quibble over differences in crowd size that amount to a few hundred people seems rather childish to me. I think a lot of it amounts to the away attendance, words got around that the view from the Worthing End is crap so people don't bother coming.

There he goes again talking sense.

 

[Storer68]

..........and I know that a few had free tickets.

Anyway. I had a great time, and it could be £50 a game a and I would still be going.

I'd be suprised.............

 

[Curious Orange]

There he goes again talking sense.

Lets face, when was the last time I made a controversial post!!

 

[Storer68]

In 1959-60, th average gate for home brihgton RESERVE matches was 3469

 

[sir albion]

I don't know where people get the impression that we've historically had massive crowds, I've been going for 20 odd years and it isn't like we breached 10k very often at the Goldstone in that time - the average was nearer 7k or 8k if memory serves (even in '91) - so to quibble over differences in crowd size that amount to a few hundred people seems rather childish to me. I think a lot of it amounts to the away attendance, words got around that the view from the Worthing End is crap so people don't bother coming.

Actually we was pretty decent sized club until maggy thatcher came along i,e reccesion,then we had the goldstone dissapear from under us.thats why the 80's and 90's where grim and then in 2000 onwards a dire small shitty stadium called withdean.

Can't be to harsh on us

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/england.htm

 

[Curious Orange]

Actually we was pretty decent sized club until maggy thatcher came along i,e reccesion,then we had the goldstone dissapear from under us.thats why the 80's and 90's where grim and then in 2000 onwards a dire small shitty stadium called withdean.

Can't be to harsh on us

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/england.htm

So Mrs Thatcher has been in collusion with Dick Knight to ruin our club!?!

 

[bright1064]

All these negative comments, yet we will all beat the Withdean again 2nd Feb vs Crewe.

This is football! Things aren't great atm, but we'll get through. Anyone remember Hereford I wonder? Those were REAL dark days! We were a goal away from playing non league football.

The bottom line is...things are brighter now, we're getting Falmer ffs!

Things could be a LOT worse